Review by Matt S. I bought Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection – a compilation of some of Konami’s classic arcade releases (circa 1981 though 1988) for one game alone: Haunted Castle. The arcade take on Castlevania is brutal, brilliant, and an absolute masterpiece of classic arcade platforming action. Sadly, as good…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. VA-11 HALL-A has been kicking around for a fair few years now, but for one reason or another I have never actually played it before. Finally, after a number of people have been badgering me to finally move it off the backlist, the Nintendo Switch release…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Following on from Voez, and later Deemo, we finally have Cytus on our Nintendo Switches, and therefore all three rhythm game franchises from Taiwanese developer, Rayark. This is a supremely talented team of rhythm game developers, and with over 200 songs on Cytus Alpha, they have…
Read MoreReview by James T. You could be forgiven for believing that Japanese developer Game Freak is only responsible for bringing the world of Pokémon – the series it is best known for – to our games libraries. Since the company’s inception in 1989, more than fifty percent of its releases…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Be careful what you wish for. The SteamWorld series, by developer Image & Form, has always offered stellar production values and tight, engaging gameplay, across the many genres that it has crossed over the years. There’s been a tower defence, two platformers, and a 2D XCom…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Panty Party is a game in which variations of women’s undergarments battle it out in a no-holds barred deathmatch. Whether your preference is plain white briefs or panties with bear designs printed on them, tentacle panties (which seem rather… impractical to me) through to the mighty…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that 2017’s Bye-Bye BoxBoy! was meant to be the final game in the series. After all, this was the third game in what Nintendo kept referring to as a “trilogy”, and one with a definite air of finality about…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Moero Chronicle is Idea Factory at its most Idea Factory. It’s a game so utterly devoted to fan service that it doesn’t bother itself with traditional expectations of a video game; the localisation is barely coherent, and the narrative behind it isn’t any more disciplined. And…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Harvest Moon (and the genre it spawned) is great, because Harvest Moon is a sentimentally meditative game. You enjoy a homey little life in the far-flung countryside, where you run through a daily routine of milking cows and tending to onions. Morning chores done, you head…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen was originally developed and published by Capcom in 2012 as the vanilla game Dragon’s Dogma. An enhanced edition – Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen – was then released a year later, and now in 2019 that version has graced the Nintendo Switch with…
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